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Tell (Do Well)

from Red Tigers by Short Hand

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Sometimes you’re a horrific mess
All poorly-dressed, baked and underfed
Slip sliding down the marble bannister to hell
Still sometimes it’s like you swallowed a verbose fish
You want to be nonchalant and keep it all hid
But you’d do well to tell

I’m not a shrink or professional therapist
It’s not my occupation or deep secret wish
And I’m not saying you gotta stand tall on stilts and ring a gigantic bell
But when your mind is a rabid bird
Pecking at your frontal lobe with unsaid words
You’d do well to tell

And we could call the world a perfect pond of shit
A bit of that, a bit of this
And pretty soon you’ve got a riot to quell
It might not be the only way to clear the air to get from ‘lost here’ to ‘found there’
But you might as well do well and tell

I’m not trying to be super cute, facile, or smart
Not trying to settle something or start it
I feel pretty sure but I’m not gonna twist your arm and yell
I think 8 times out of 10
The best place to begin, again and again
Is to do well and tell

And I don’t want to belabor the position
Not trying to beat you into submission
Don’t mean to knock over trees that already fell
But when your thoughts are dead tigers
Held together by rusty pliers
You’d do well to tell

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from Red Tigers, released October 27, 2023

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Short Hand Muncie, Indiana

Short Hand figures that it's easier to learn to play an instrument than it is to find someone who can play it. He also figures that it's easier for him to do the writing, recording, mixing, artwork, and anything else that might need to be done. In the end, a set of sounds collect themselves into different shapes one might call "albums." Some sound like this and some sound like that. ... more

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